Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Guest Photo of the Day: Samanta Bernardes

Yes, Allex Ferreira takes traditional portraits, too, and very good ones, as well as some creative fine art nudes. But this series is what really caught my attention and my imagination as I looked through his photostream. The use of color on this model's face makes for a very beautiful and intriguing image, and the palette he has chosen is inspired, with the brighter colors emphasizing highlights and the darker colors creating artificial shadows. The blue of the lips perfectly matches the eyes, the hair cascading down the side frames the picture perfectly (but, being on only one side, looks better than if it were on both sides of the image), and the tight crop draws attention to those gorgeous eyes. All around a great shot.

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the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.